Long Description:[EN]The Convent of Santa Maria Scala Coeli, popularly called the Carthusian Monastery is a religious building in the parish of Bacelo located in the city of Évora, Arraiolos along the road, about 1km from Port Lagoon.The vast monastery, the first of the Carthusian Order (St. Bruno) to be built in Portugal, was founded on December 8, 1587 by the Archbishop of Évora, D. Teotónio of Braganza. The building, located next to the elegant Aqueduct of Silver Water, stands out for its beautiful Renaissance façade, marble, whose authorship is attributed to the famous architects Felipe Terzi and Giovanni Vincenzo Casali. Inside the temple, you can admire the vast monastic stalls and large carved and gilded retable of the altar. The cloister, with 98 yards on each corridor, is the largest in Portugal.In 1834, the Carthusian monks left the monastery due to the expulsion of religious orders.Have been lost so many paintings and precious library, which is now part of the Torre do Tombo.Served as the School of Agriculture, to be sold to Jose Eugenio Maria de Almeida, into the possession of the family of the Counts of Vilalva.In the twentieth century the monastery was restored by the initiative of the great-grandson of Jose Maria Vasco Eugenio Maria de Almeida (the founder of the Foundation Eugenio de Almeida) who in 1960 called again to the Carthusian monks living in it, with the consent of Archbishop of Évora, Manuel Salgueiro Trinity.Vasco Maria died after the April 25, after the occupation of some of their land without direct heirs, getting the properties back into possession of the Carthusians.